HP: By the lake of Snake Garden, flowers bloom on the other side

Severus Snape looked forward to the gift his daughter would give him every year, wondering what he would receive this year.

I’m afraid I won’t receive any gift from her next year, right?

Not just next year...

Snape received the Christmas gift from Lycoris this year, but did not open it immediately.

He ran his long fingers over the packaging, finally pulling at the ribbon.

A box contained the usual gift every year - two pairs of wool socks - these were the ninth and tenth pair.

There was a faint smile on Snape's usually cold face.

The things in the other box are often my daughter’s little ideas.

The paper packaging with green background and fine snowflake patterns was torn open, and a special box came into view.

The box body is dark green, and the top lid is painted with a lifelike red Lycoris radiata.

The petals are reminiscent of real flowers at first glance, soft and gorgeous.

Inside the exquisite box is a set of Gobstone game props.

It is different from the ordinary ones you buy. The patterns on it are obviously carefully designed.

One pattern is common potion raw materials, and the other pattern is a potion bottle.

You can tell at first glance that a lot of thought went into this.

Snape didn't know why his daughter gave him this, but he still cherished his daughter's kindness and placed it together with gifts from previous years.

Many people did not return home because of what Harry Potter from Gryffindor said: Voldemort had resurrected and Hogwarts was the safest place.

Slytherin common room.

Draco Malfoy, who was ordered by his mother not to come back for Christmas, and Lycoris, who always spent Christmas at Hogwarts, were sitting on the sofa chatting.

"Lycles, what gift did you give to the dean?" Draco has always been very curious, especially when it comes to his girlfriend's Christmas gift to their dean.

"I customized a set of Gobstone game props." There was nothing hidden from her, and Lycoris leaned on Draco.

"Gobstones?" Draco repeated. Why this?

Draco didn't dislike this game, after all, he had played it in his childhood, but in his eyes, no game could compare to Quidditch.

Lycoris answered him, "Dad's mother was once the director of the Gobstone Club."

Lycoris only thought of this when she met the Hufflepuff Minister of the Gobstone Club in Umbridge's Defense Against the Dark Arts office asking for a warrant.

If Eileen Prince had not insisted on craving the love of that Muggle man and had returned to the Prince family, Severus Snape might have had a different life.

He likes quietness and studying, so he probably doesn't like Quidditch. Maybe he inherited his mother's talent for Gobstones...

"So?" Draco didn't understand, so he asked, "What does this have to do with you giving the dean the Gobstone game item?"

"..." Lycoris looked at Draco who was asking for advice and took a deep breath, "Let's talk about something else."

"Like?" Draco was very interested in what she wanted to talk about. "What?"

"I heard that kissing under the mistletoe can help you stay together for life. Let's give it a try." Licorice pointed her index finger at the green wreath hanging on the wall.

Draco turned his head to look over, and when he looked back, Lycoris leaned over and kissed him.

This kiss was different from the previous ones, Licorice was very aggressive.

In winter, everything is withered, except for the mistletoe, which is green and has a faint fragrance.

In the Slytherin common room, the faint fragrance was intensified by the fire in the fireplace.

In the empty common room, a blond boy was pressed on the sofa and kissed by a girl with long black hair. Through the gaps in the girl's long hair, one could see the boy's closed eyes and trembling eyelashes.

Harry closed his eyes; he didn't want to see.

Feeling pain in his internal organs, Harry saw a scene he didn't want to see.

Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang were standing in the corner of the corridor kissing, and she spoke with a tone of happiness that Harry had never heard before.

"Are you really going to work in the Ministry of Magic?" Qiu Zhang was very happy after knowing Cedric's decision.

"I plan to start as an assistant in the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Magic. After you graduate, we can visit your father's country." Qiu Zhang has always been in Cedric's future.

In response to Cedric's sincere future plans, Qiu Zhang offered him a kiss, and the two kissed passionately in the corner.

Harry felt his heart was broken, and he returned to the dormitory with a pale face.

Ron wasn't there, because he'd gone to catch Ginny - she'd reportedly gone on an early date with her boyfriend.

Hermione was not there either. She was in a bad mood in Hogwarts, which was full of kissing couples.

She thought of Krum.

Harry buried himself in the quilt, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he "saw" Qiu Zhang.